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The\u00a0<\/span>International Astronomical Union (IAU)<\/span><\/a> has named the asteroid <\/span>2001 QH220\u00a0<\/span>after researcher Jordi Portell, deputy director of the Technology Unit<\/a> of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB<\/a>) and member of the Institute of Space Sciences of Catalonia (IEEC<\/a>). <\/span>This nomination is a recognition of his outstanding work on Asteroid Data Processing in the Gaia mission<\/a> of the European Space Agency (ESA<\/a>), where he coordinates several aspects of Gaia daily operations, including the detection of asteroids on the focal plane.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The asteroid 2001 QH220, was discovered in August 2001 in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS).<\/p>\n

The organism responsible for naming comets, asteroids and minor planets is the\u00a0Working Group Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN)<\/a>\u00a0of the IAU, who publishes the new names on periodic bulletins. The Portell asteroid was included in the\u00a0Bulletin #9<\/a>\u00a0which was published on June 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis news came as a great surprise\u201d, says Dr. Portell<\/strong>. \u201cI feel really honoured and grateful to have a Solar System body named after me! I specially appreciate that such a recognition is related to my work on the daily data processing system of Gaia, where we faced quite a few challenges – but also had quite some fun, especially with the Solar System Objects team in Nice. This system, which processes millions of Gaia measurements every day, including known and yet unknown asteroids, is only possible thanks to the hard work of our team. Gaia is really an amazing project.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Credits: ESA\/Nesga\/DPAC. The image shows the orbits of more than 14,000 known asteroids (with the Sun in the center of the image) based on information from the 2nd Nesga data release.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jordi Portell<\/strong><\/a> is an electronics engineer and Doctor in Applied Physics and Science Simulation from the UPC. He works on the Gaia mission by coordinating data processing activities. He is a specialist in compression algorithms and was in charge of aspects of Gaia daily operations, including the detection of asteroids on the focal plane.<\/p>\n

He is the current deputy director of the ICCUB Technology Unit<\/a> for the software and massive data division, the operations and interface engineer of the Gaia mission Project Office, and is giving support to several projects, such as PLATO or NewSpace missions. Furthermore, he has published more than 50 articles in scientific journals, is co-inventor of a patent and has directed three doctoral theses. Portell is also the technology director of the spin-off company of the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica, DAPCOM Data Services, which markets its own data compression technology.<\/p>\n

\u00bb For further information: ICCUB website [+]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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